Yet another try for fs-verity
Yet another try for fs-verity
Posted Jun 3, 2019 23:53 UTC (Mon) by jhoblitt (subscriber, #77733)Parent article: Yet another try for fs-verity
Why not use an xattr so user space had some way of detecting these magic files without having to try an unusual ioctl on every file. It would also be nice, regardless of the config interface, if a protected file always showed the immutable bit as true.
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